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Quarantine Often now there are covid tests before you can fly international. If you test positive in some countries, you would not be allowed to fly and be put in quarantine. Or you might even lose your ticket. This is a murky insurance area as it isn't hospitalisation and isn't medical...

Our "tricks of the trade" for travel to Europe used to be to have a stopover in Asia, then use a day flight to Frankfurt from Singapore,or to use one of the discounted business class airfares from Jakarta/Singapore/Bangkok/Kuala Lumpur through to Europe.It was the overnight flights in economy...

Thanks for your reply Brian! Back in the olden days , we used to take a month or 2 in Europe every year. In the Euro zone as that represented such good value for us using $AUD. So, for example to visit Switzerland, we'd stay in Büsingen am Hochrhein. A little bit of Germany surrounded by...

You probably have read that down here in Australia, the borders are closed. They have been that way for quite some time and look as if that will stay for quite some time in future. I'll try and give a personal post as why we Australians don't write letters to our Members of Parliament to...

I've been buying stocks here in Australia for my partner and myself all our working lives. That's about 38 years. Generally I've looked for stocks that will pay a regular and increasing dividend as the foundation to the portfolio. I've kept an eye on stocks that have been historically good...